The American Bibliopolist, Volumen6J. Sabin & Sons., 1874 |
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... persons unqualified by technical knowledge to speak on mat- ters of execution , who have discussed such difficult questions as whether or not Dürer cut blocks with his own hand . That there is great diversity in the merits of the blocks ...
... persons unqualified by technical knowledge to speak on mat- ters of execution , who have discussed such difficult questions as whether or not Dürer cut blocks with his own hand . That there is great diversity in the merits of the blocks ...
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... person into notice . " Curiously enough , Mr. Harness himself was too lame for the dissimulation which he imagined to have afforded Shakespeare a valuable resource . Mr. Harness having thus converted the foolish conjecture into a fact ...
... person into notice . " Curiously enough , Mr. Harness himself was too lame for the dissimulation which he imagined to have afforded Shakespeare a valuable resource . Mr. Harness having thus converted the foolish conjecture into a fact ...
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... person . The metrical arrangement is remarkably free from error , and it would seem as if the editor had taken some ... persons a sufficient inducement to read the memorial of a man whose ability in his own occupation has rarely if ever ...
... person . The metrical arrangement is remarkably free from error , and it would seem as if the editor had taken some ... persons a sufficient inducement to read the memorial of a man whose ability in his own occupation has rarely if ever ...
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... person . He does not tell us what they look like , but what they are ; and through all his novels they answer to the bent and the natural instincts we have been led to associate with them . It is this elevated form of fidelity that we ...
... person . He does not tell us what they look like , but what they are ; and through all his novels they answer to the bent and the natural instincts we have been led to associate with them . It is this elevated form of fidelity that we ...
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... persons lately deceased become , of course , epitaphs ; and a collection of epitaphs might well be added to a collection of por- traits , or attached to them as notes . We cannot resist adding one or two that are not properly ...
... persons lately deceased become , of course , epitaphs ; and a collection of epitaphs might well be added to a collection of por- traits , or attached to them as notes . We cannot resist adding one or two that are not properly ...
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Página 64 - OH that those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, 5 ' Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away...
Página 130 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ' and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches ; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.
Página 64 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Página 59 - M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Página 19 - EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH, LH WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all she had a fault. Leave it buried in this vault. One name was ELIZABETH, The other let it sleep with death : Fitter, where it died, to tell, Than that it lived at all. Farewell 1 SONG.
Página 64 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Página 110 - Flagellation and the Flagellants. — A History of the Rod in all Countries, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By the Rev. W. COOPER, BA Second Edition, revised and corrected, with numerous Illustrations.
Página 30 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, — Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
Página 44 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Página 64 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves